Word: brezhnevs
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...explain that his country had moved in Afghanistan against cia and Zionist agents, two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the convoy that 'Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes and was heading for the same catastrophe that befell the ex-dictator. He said the Soviets would come to grief if they remained in Afghanistan...
...Eggs Bolshevik is way too Brezhnev b) A fire forced people to evacuate c) Denny's also has a Russian problem d) No gas mask, no helmet, no service...
...right? Jack Matlock, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, has talked of Russian puzzlement that American intellectuals are so reluctant to give Reagan credit for his diplomatic poker playing. Genrikh Trofimenko, once a Brezhnev adviser and U.S. expert at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, has stated that "99 percent of Russian people believe that [America] won the Cold War because of your President's insistence...
RANAN LURIE, Neue Zurcher Zeitung I would say Brezhnev. His face was like an ancient map of his character. It reflected so much of his personality and gave you several different ways to express the same features. If once in a blue moon he smiled, it was such a rarity that it was like a scoop. I was impressed with how his viciousness just spread into his face...
APRIL 1982: Kremlin officials attribute a four-week absence by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to a "routine winter vacation." Within the year, he dies...